PING: [PATCH] Enable debug info on all libraries for OpenJDK builds

David Holmes david.holmes at oracle.com
Tue May 7 04:10:20 UTC 2013


On 7/05/2013 1:19 PM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Andrew Hughes <gnu.andrew at redhat.com
> <mailto:gnu.andrew at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     HotSpot is even more of a problem because not being able to commit
>     directly
>     risks people losing credit for the work they've done and, with an
>     open source
>     project, credit is the only reward.
>
>
> It *is* possible with mercurial to create/import/manipulate changesets
> with a different user, so that credit remains with the true author even
> when first submitted into mercurial by an Oracle employee.  And that
> should be the standard practice.

Absolutely! If a non-Oracle person can create a changeset then the 
Oracle sponsor can import it and push via JPRT. Otherwise the sponsor 
should create a changeset with a Contributed-by attribution.

David



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